I swear to god I am not linking this just because it says nice things about me
If you haven't seen Pish Tosh's piece on The Rhetoric of Blog Humor, do go check it out. It's a clever (and funny) attempt to describe some of the particular techniques you see going on in blogs to create the funny. Entertaining, but also thought-provoking: am now thinking about what other rhetorical techniques one sees in blogland, how those rhetorical techniques differ from other forms of writing (and why), how they work...
Plus it makes me want to write some more funny posts again.
Plus it makes me want to write some more funny posts again.
